{"id":7052,"date":"2013-01-22T00:06:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T06:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2013-01-22T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T06:12:02","slug":"before-the-thaw-which-preceded-the-deep-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"Before the thaw which preceded the DEEP freeze."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Very strange weather: For a week the temperature hovered around freezing; with just enough thawing to allow for these ice events to occur. Saturday the temperature approached 45 degrees F melting all but the thickest ice. On Sunday the temperature plummeted to below zero; with wind chills reaching -25 by early this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7053\" title=\"L1190152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190152.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190152-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190152-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190152-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Take the first step in faith. You don&#8217;t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.&#8221;<br \/>\n~\u00a0Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190153.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7054\" title=\"L1190153\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190153.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190153-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190153-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190153-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7056\" title=\"L1190155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190155.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190155-79x150.jpg 79w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190155-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/L1190155-541x1024.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica R8\/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very strange weather: For a week the temperature hovered around freezing; with just enough thawing to allow for these ice events to occur. Saturday the temperature approached 45 degrees F melting all but the thickest ice. On Sunday the temperature plummeted to below zero; with wind chills reaching -25 by early this morning. 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